At 4/21/08 04:32 PM, BMack24 wrote:
i don't see why everyone's making a big deal over it being made with sprites. if it's entertaining, who cares how it's made?
As we said earlier, sprite movies have a reputation for being very, very bad - which precedes the concept of SMBZ. It's like when people groan every time they hear Uwe Boll is making another film, and someone asks "What's the big deal? If its entertaining, who cares whos directing it?".
It's also a combination of two franchises - Mario and Sonic - which to some is fulljoy overload and to others is cynical manipulation of the fanbases. Lord knows quite a few of us are guilty of trying to cram lots of different products into one movie or game to try and gain e-popularity - Alvin just took two of the more notoriously fan-backed products and meshed them together. With sprites. And succeeded.
The fact that the end result was of a tremendous level of quality made the whole ordeal worse - while people are quick to forget about Generic Crossover Sprite Movie #345, Alvin (ALLLLLLLVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN) made 6 of these things (and an intended intro) with a coherent continuity. Thus, the fans got hungry for more and the flamers got angrier.
In before "WE JUST WASTED 6 PAGES SAYING THAT, DUMBASS".